ethomaz said:
Hyruken said:
CGI-Quality said:
Hyruken said:
CGI-Quality said:
Hyruken said:
CGI-Quality said:
Not even 6 posts in and already the downplayers have come to crash the party 
If anything, I expect a word from Sony soon, and ioi will adjust accordingly.
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I wouldn't say down players was the right words. I think more like realists who realise that there are actually no numbers to back up claims. We see the word "record" thrown around and people assume this must mean VGC is wrong, the game has to be undertracked! When if you actually read the article it is worded very carefully. It says PS3 exclusive record. If you follow that through and have a look at the top selling PS3 exclusive in EMEAA it is GT5:P. So no surprises that its follow up might have done as'well as it?
Add to that Australia is not exactly known for its big game sales. And add even more to that PS3 is in 3rd place in Australia with 1m console sales. If a country like france which is one of the main markets for GT games sold 200k with 2.5m consoles to sell to what kind of numbers can we expect from somewhere like Australia?
Very very little in comparison.
Point being just because the article says record, doesn't mean big nimbers in comparison to places like US/UK/Japan etc. It means big numbers compared to what the format is used to selling in that region.
Now if he had said biggest selling PS3 game that would of meant a lot more. But he didn't because there are a lot more multi-platform games that have sold more. And more 360 and Wii games which have sold more.
Tonight will see the numbers for NPD released. If we have GT5 over-tracked i imagine your be the first person to say you guys were wrong then?
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People with a habit of trashing something are known as downplayers. No way around it. When the same folks visit the same topic with the same behavior, that's what it is.
The article bit is irrelvant, because when we do have solid figures, those same folks parade through a thread with similar tactics. Defend it all you want, but that's what it is.
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But by that logic there are also "up players" too then.
Wouldn't that normally be classified as fanboyism?
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I don't use the word 'fanboy", so to me, no it doesn't. It's called playing down something you don't favor.
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Fair enough. But to me someone saying something is under-tracked based on this article is clutching at straws to prove an agenda. Because as mentioned the article has no numbers, even has the guy saying he won't comment on if the 2.5m first week numbers was true or not. Says best 4 days for a PS3 exclusive and so on. There are a lot of things there which make the article look like a low substance PR article.
Don't get me wrong breaking any record is a great achivement. But in small game sale regions it doesn't mean it is the same in bigger game sale regions. People thinking the game has to be under-tracked based on an article with no numbers at all is pretty silly i think.
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People are saying GT5 undertracked because all article of sales (with numbers)... there are 4 or 5 contries reporting sales records com impressive numbers in EMEAA.
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Well let's see those numbers
As far as we know we got
UK - 265k
What are the others for the EMEAA region?
